- City
- Galivants Ferry
- State
- SC
Very good work.
Now..
Not to scratch during assembly!
Now..
Not to scratch during assembly!
Sunny Delight - now Shelly 2.0
- Thread starter AdamH
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- City
- Molalla
- State
- Or
Envious of your spray booth and stand for the tub. You do excellent work.
- City
- Surf City
- State
- NC
I can’t take credit for any of the paint work. I’ve partnered with a great guy for almost 20 years for paint work on Jeeps and bikes.
- City
- Surf City
- State
- NC
I’m probably about 2 weeks away from driving back (about 5 hrs one way) to pick up the body parts at paint. While I’m there we’re going to apply the decals as well. Therefore it’s time to get the rocker moldings ready. IYKYK
I’ve never had black molding in the past. I’ve always polished up the silver ones and feel they look best when you run chrome wheels / have other chrome bits. With the complete change in direction with the color now I’m torn. I will still have chrome center caps on the white wheels but that’s it. I wonder if I should go black with these guards??
Current plan is to get them ready for decal work since I’ll install them on the tub to help with decal alignment. I’ll just polish them decently for now and take a look when installed. Can easily take them back off to finish the polish or to turn them black
I’ve never had black molding in the past. I’ve always polished up the silver ones and feel they look best when you run chrome wheels / have other chrome bits. With the complete change in direction with the color now I’m torn. I will still have chrome center caps on the white wheels but that’s it. I wonder if I should go black with these guards??
Current plan is to get them ready for decal work since I’ll install them on the tub to help with decal alignment. I’ll just polish them decently for now and take a look when installed. Can easily take them back off to finish the polish or to turn them black
- City
- Richmond
- State
- TX
The rails were all anodized black from the factory. They only became brushed aluminum due to years and years of sun exposure.
If you are going for original, black it is. If you are going for what looks good, all bets off, run what ya brung.
If you are going for original, black it is. If you are going for what looks good, all bets off, run what ya brung.
- City
- Surf City
- State
- NC
Interesting. I spent some time reading on various CJ specific forums and seemed to think that the black anodized started in 83 with silver anodized prior
These, along with the last set of ‘81 rockers I had, didn’t have a spec of black on them anywhere. However I have had some from later years that while the sides looked silver you could definitely see the black on the bottom side.
Regardless I’ll go with what looks best to me. Right now I’m leaning towards silver
These, along with the last set of ‘81 rockers I had, didn’t have a spec of black on them anywhere. However I have had some from later years that while the sides looked silver you could definitely see the black on the bottom side.
Regardless I’ll go with what looks best to me. Right now I’m leaning towards silver
- City
- Surf City
- State
- NC
5 hr drive ahead of me tomorrow. Taking the chassis to the painter’s place to set the body on. We’ll spend Friday morning applying the decals and back to the coast Friday evening.
A little out of order but with selling two personal homes, selling the family homestead and travel and then moving into a rental home down at the coast where we are building - I have not gotten around to ordering the drivetrain. That’ll happen Monday morning.
To be honest not having much to do on the Jeep hasn’t been terrible. Today was the first day in weeks we weren’t over 100 degrees with the heat index.
A little out of order but with selling two personal homes, selling the family homestead and travel and then moving into a rental home down at the coast where we are building - I have not gotten around to ordering the drivetrain. That’ll happen Monday morning.
To be honest not having much to do on the Jeep hasn’t been terrible. Today was the first day in weeks we weren’t over 100 degrees with the heat index.
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- City
- Surf City
- State
- NC
Side note - we added another Jeep to the herd. We sold our two year old Wagoneer to Carvana. I won’t go into the details here but if anyone is thinking of buying a Wagoneer please reach out to me. I have owned over 50 vehicles in my life. Our Wagoneer was by far the worst vehicle I have ever owned and multiple folks we know would say the same thing
When it wasn’t in the shop or hanging out with me on the side of the road broken down it was nice. Smooth ride and so much power for such a large SUV. But you never knew what was going to happen next.
Wife is happy with the replacement
When it wasn’t in the shop or hanging out with me on the side of the road broken down it was nice. Smooth ride and so much power for such a large SUV. But you never knew what was going to happen next.
Wife is happy with the replacement